BE A CREATIVE REBEL 🏳️🌈
Hello, I'm Whit Whitley. I love being creative! I'm the founder of indie record label East Broad Records and digital marketing agency Start Smart Now. I help creative rebels unlock their creativity to follow their dreams, get their art out into the world, and build businesses that pay the bills.
THE LATEST: May 31, 2025
East Broad Records released my new single Dreams Do Come True (Raymond's Song) that you can hear in this video, which also includes iPhone footage of the initial guitar riff that inspired the song over three years ago one night in a hotel room in Athens, Georgia.
VIDEO NOTES: I’m fascinated with how songs go from strumming and humming on the couch (or hotel room bed) to a full blown song that’s produced in the recording studio. This is one of the big reasons why I started my record label. One of my songwriter tips is to travel with your guitar no matter where you go. New places can give you a new perspective about things going on in your life, which can easily become the inspiration for your next song. That’s what happened on this night. You never know when inspiration will come. My other songwriter tip is to have your iPhone handy and record a video even if you’re not sure the idea will ever become a song. You just never know!
ANNOUNCEMENT: Stay tuned for more information about a guided Artist's Way 12-Week Course that I'm hosting online this summer. Registration will open soon!
IN PROGRESS: I just finished the first draft of my book Do What You Love and Pay the Bills: A Practical Guide for Building the Business and Life of Your Dreams. I'm super excited about sharing this book with you. It's a culmination of what I've learned over the past 20. years about maintaining a creative practice and growing a business that will pay the bills.
2025 Watercolor Series: Bandages and Bottles
I'm also working on a new series of 24x18 watercolor paintings called Bandages and Bottles. My goal is to finish the series for Long Beach Open Studios in October. I will post paintings as I finish them.
2024 Watercolor Series: Healing the Mother Wound
I completed over 60 paintings while living with and caring for my mother who had a stroke last year. My partner and I moved from our home in New York City to my hometown of Spring, Texas. During that time, to my surprise, I healed very deep lifelong mother wounds that I truly believed were not repairable. For some reason, I also picked up watercolor painting, which allowed me to process my feelings with shapes, colors, and brush strokes.
